July has always felt like an editing season to me.

Not in the sense of opening a manuscript and fixing grammar, but in the way we naturally start looking around our lives and asking, Does this still fit? We clean out our closets. We wear less. We eat lighter. The days are longer, the pace is a little softer, and somehow it feels easier to imagine becoming someone who doesn't carry so much.

Over the past few months, I've noticed something in so many of our conversations inside Hot Girl Writing House. So many of you are sitting on incredible stories, but you're standing just outside of them. You're writing about your life instead of inviting us into it. You're keeping yourself safely tucked between the lines because somewhere along the way, you started believing your experiences weren't interesting enough, or that you needed to teach something instead of simply telling the truth.

Here's the thing babe. I don't think you need more ideas. I think you need less noise.

Less worrying about what people will think. Less pressure to sound profound. Less editing yourself before you've even finished the first paragraph.

And that's exactly what we're exploring this month.

I'm calling it The Summer Edit (because I just love a title that sounds like it go be in the pages of Vogue). Think of this as an invitation to gently shed the layers that have been weighing down your writing. The beliefs that tell you your story doesn't matter. The habit of hiding behind broad observations instead of letting us into the messy, beautiful specifics of your life. The tendency to over-explain when what really lands is a single honest line.

In our workshop, we're going to explore what it looks like to edit not just our writing, but the stories we've been telling ourselves about who we are allowed to be on the page. We'll talk about vulnerability, specificity, and why the details you've been tempted to skip are often the very ones your readers are waiting for.

Then we'll gather for two write-ins, where you'll have the space to put it all into practice. No pressure or perfection. Just time to write, experiment, and see what happens when you stop trying to sound like a writer and simply write like yourself.

I have a feeling this is going to be one of those months where something big shifts for you. Not because you'll become a different writer. But because you'll finally stop carrying so much that was never yours to hold in the first place.

I can't wait to see what emerges.

Workshop:

Wednesday, July 8th at 7pm ET